Jewelry



Oct. 8, 1929. c, BlRNBAUM 1,731,092

, JEWELRY I Filed Sept. 16, 1927 WITNESSES 1 v 7/ BY @a/mwr I k a? ATTORNEY Patented on s, 1929 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE JEWELRY I Application filed September 16, 1927. Serial No. 219,997.

This invention relates to jewelry and more particularly to rings, an ob ect of the 1nven tion being to provide a ring having an improved mounting and an improved setting in the mounting to permit the setting to be reversed so as to expose different stones or ornamental elements and which may be opened and which may contain various devices or articles.

A further object is to provide a setting of this character which is hingedly connected to the mount and also has a swiveled connection with the mount so that it may be swung out of the mount, reversed, returned to the mount and present a neat, attractive and tin ished appearance in either position.

WVith these and other objects in view, the invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combinations and arrangements of parts, which will be more fully hereinafter described and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 is a plan view of my improved ring;

Figure 2 is a view in section on the line 22 of Figure 1;

Figure 3 is a plan view showing the elements of the setting opened;

Figure 4 is a view in section on the line 44 of Figure 3;

Figure 5 is an end View of the setting removed;

Figure 6 is a view in side elevation of a modified form of setting;

Figure 7 is a plan view of a modification;

Figure 8 is a view in section on the line 88 of Figure 7 Figure 9 is a view similar to Figure 8, illustrating another modification.

In the description of my improved ring I employ the term band to describe that portion which fits around the finger, and the word. mounting to include that portion of the ring carried by the band and which supports my improved setting.

I am aware of course that in the trade the words mounting and setting are often confused, but for clearncss I shall refer to the ornamental elements or elements which fit within the mounting as the setting, this term including all the features or elements of the ornamental device.

1 represents the band and 2 the mounting of my improved ring. It is to be understood. of course that this band and mounting may be made of any suitable material, ornamented in any way desired, and as a matter of fact my invention is broad enough to comprehend its employment in a mounting on other articles of jewelry than a ring, but it is especially adapted for use in a ring and will be described in that connection.

The setting may be of any shape. I have illustrated the same of general oblong shape, and it is of course to be understood that the setting fits or snaps into the mounting.

The settingillustrated in Figures 1, 2, 3 and 4 comprises three parts, namely, outer members 3 and t and an intermediate member 5. The outer members 3 and 4 may constitute any ring ornaments as, for example, one may constitute a cameo and the other a stone. These parts are fixedly secured in metal frames 6 and 7, respectively, which are connected at one end by a hinge 8. One leaf of this hinge 8 carries a pin 9 which has swiveled mounting in one end of the mount 2, as shown at 10.

The elements 4 and 5 are likewise connected by a hinge 11 and this element 5 may constitute a picture frame or any other desired construction. The element 5 folds against the element 4, and the element 3 folds down upon element 5 so as to enclose the element 5, and the setting as a whole may be swung out of the mounting 2 to the dotted line position shown in Figure 2, and then turned on the swivel 1.0 and returned to the mount to present the side of the setting desired.

It is of course to be understood that these parts will snap together and remain in the position in which they are designed, and I may employ any mechanism within the skill of the jeweler to bring about the desired result.

The broad idea of the invention is the provision of a reversible setting, the parts of which are hingedly connected and swiveled to the mount so that they may be swung out of the mount, reversed and returned to the mount.

While in Figures 1, 2, 3, a, 5 and 6 I illustrate the setting as connected to one end of the mount this setting may be connected to the side of the mount, as indicated in Figures 7, 8 and The exact manner of connecting the several elements or the setting is capable of a wide range of modification, and I have illustrated in Figure 6 the intermediate memher 5 as connected to the same hinge 8 which connects the elements 3 and @L, so that the setting will open much in the manner of a book.

In Figures 7, 8 and 9 1 indicate the same reference numerals to indicate like parts in other views of the drawing, these figures illustratin a construction which is precisely like the construction first described with the exception that the setting is hinged to one side of the mount instead oi at the end.

It is therefore apparent that my improved ring or article of jewelry embodies the broad idea of an ornamental element which I term a setting, which may be made or' any number of independent elements hingedly or otherwise connected to each other and having hinged and swiveled connection to the mounting so that they may be swti out oi? the mounting, reversed and re" rned to the mount. The several elements may be opened or separated so that they may confine any desired device, feature or element.

Various changes and alte ations might be made in the general form of the parts described without departing from my invention and hence I do not limit myself to the precise details set forth but consider myself at liberty to make such changes and alterations as fairly fall within the spirit and scope or" the appended claims.

1 claim:

1. As a new article of manufacture, a ring, an open mount on the ring, a reversible set ting in the mount, said setting including a plurality of sections hingedly connected together and to a pin having swivelet connec tion with the mount, whereby the setting may be moved out of the mount and reversed and returned to the mount.

2. its a new article of manufacture, a ring, an open mount on the ring, a reversible set ting in the mount, a pin on the setting having swiveled connection with the mount and hin d y connected to the settin whereby the setting may be moved out of the mount, re versed and returned to the mount.

CHARLES BIRNBAUB'L 

